Marlborough Yoga Retreats

Join Julie from Julie Stephens Yoga in Nelson at the Christchurch Yoga Experience on the 5th & 6th December. Julie is highly regarded across New Zealand as a premiere, top-tier yoga teacher whose sessions are an unmissable addition to this yoga weekend. Julie leads international retreats and comprehensive 200-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings.
If you haven't practiced with Julie before, she is renowned for her "ballet-like" class flows, immense technical wisdom, and an incredibly warm, easy-going teaching style. No matter where you are on your yoga journey, Julie has a gift for making you feel capable of more than you thought possible while keeping you safe and supported.

Join Carolyn from Breathbeingstudio on Sat 5th Dec - 11.05 at the Christchurch Yoga Experience for 'Connecting Vinyasa to Nourishing Yin'.
Join the event for one day or the whole weekend.
Tickets https://www.eventbookings.com/b/event/christchurch-yoga-experience

Are you ready to plan ahead for a special wellness day, for yourself, or with a friend in the New Year? Join us at Forrest Wines vineyard in their private sunroom for a day of yoga, pampering, nourishment and a glass of Forrest bubbles to celebrate yourself and 2027.

Introducing presenters - Gemma & Leticia
Leticia is a Crystal Sound Bowl Healer and Isis Energy Practitioner who blends sound, vibration and energy work to create deeply restorative sessions that support reconnection, release and remembrance. Guided by the expansive energies of Goddess Isis, her work invites individuals to cultivate vital life-force energy, nurture themselves, and reclaim their inner magic and wisdom.
Gemma The Healing Assistant is a Yin Yoga teacher and past life regression therapist dedicated to guiding people into their inner world for clarity and emotional healing. By blending deep, long-held yin postures with a gentle space for reflection, her sessions unlock physical tension and promote profound relaxation.
Together Gemma & Leticia will offer 'Stillness & Sound' - a Yin and Crystal Sound Journey at the Christchurch Yoga Experience

Introducing presenter - Carolyn Bruce
Carolyn is the CEO, owner, and founder of Breathbeingstudio in Christchurch. She is an established wellness and movement professional with an extensive background in somatic and fitness practices. Carolyn's training includes 500 hour yoga teacher plus somatic yoga training, trauma informed yoga certification, Pilates instructor training, mindfulness studies, Yin Yoga, Children’s Yoga and Reiki practitioner training across Levels 1, 2 and 3. Carolyn also teaches the Les Mills programs Body Balance and Shapes.

Together with her background in counselling, this training informs a calm, emotionally intelligent and nervous system aware approach to teaching.

Carolyn is registered with Yoga Alliance and Reiki NZ. Carolyn will be teaching on the Saturday morning during the Christchurch Yoga Experience

The Ultimate Yoga Weekend is coming to Christchurch!
5 & 6 December. Multiple presenters - 31 classes/workshops. Single day or weekend pass.

Introducing presenter - Jessica Campbell

Jess is the founder of Bloom with Jess where she created gentle, trauma informed spaces where women can reconnect with their bodies, steady their nervous systems, and feel more at home within themselves.

What began as yoga has grown into something more layered over time, now weaving together movement, Ayurveda, and a more holistic approach to wellbeing. Bloom with Jess also facilitates Mindful Pathways, a six week trauma sensitive mindfulness programme within Christchurch Women’s Prison, supporting women with practical tools for self regulation, emotional awareness, grounding and compassion.

She hosts a monthly Sunrise Yoga Club in Christchurch, which has grown into a really special community gathering, often bringing a few hundred people together each month.

Introducing presenter - Guillaume Frappier-Richard (Gui)

Gui is a Qigong practitioner, originally from Montreal, Canada and currently based in Christchurch.
Gui is associated with the Qigong Christchurch collective. He teaches Ren Xue Qigong, focusing heavily on cultivating the heart and opening up heart qualities. Ren Yuan is a fluid moving practice that helps to stretch and strengthen the body and unify the body, Qi and Jingshen. Gui will be teaching on Sunday 6th Christchurch Yoga Experience

Introducing Melanie Morris.
Melanie (Mel) is the owner of Hañsa Wellness Christchurch and found yoga when dealing with her own pain. A former ballet dancer and loving graceful movements, studying 'Hansa' and it's gentle flow was the perfect fit for Mel. She is a level 2 senior Hansa Flow teacher as well as Yoga Therapist. She specialises in working with elderly students with chair yoga and Hansa Flow. Melanie will be teaching a 75 minute class on Sunday 6th, all levels welcome.